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This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Bird of Paradise - One of the hottest of the Pre-Code wonders, Dolores del Rio is the island princess who chooses sailor Joel McCrea for her man, but clashing cultures and a menacing volcano intervene; Joan of Paris - Paul Henried's a downed Free French flyer and Michele Morgan's an ordinary girl who prays to St. Joan for the deliverance of her country; together they try to evade the clutches of the suave Gestapo chief - Laird Cregar; and Miracle in Milan - Vittorio De Sica's Neorealist fantasy fairy tale about the fate of the poor works like a sentimental Charlie Chaplin movie - funny, tragic and suffused with humanity Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.
Blood will be spilled. Lives will be lost. Men will be ruined. AMC's critically-acclaimed series Hell on Wheels ( watch trailer) tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate officer (Anson Mount) who travels west to find the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His unrelenting quest leads him to "Hell on Wheels," the dangerous, raucous town that follows the construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad. Loaded with Bonus Features (including over twenty behind-the-scenes featurettes), experience this must-see series from the very beginning with the 3-disc set of Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season - available now on Blu-ray and DVD. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray from Entertainment One.
Some pretty cool discs are being released this week. Check out these new titles: The Grey [ Blu-ray review] - this movie has guts and Liam Neeson grounds it with a perfect mix of authority, compassion and pathos; Being John Malkovich [ Blu-ray review] - a clever, quirky masterpiece that plays even better now than it did in 1999; and The Walking Tall Trilogy [ Blu-ray review] - fans of the series should be pretty happy with this release... the movies have never looked better on home video than they do here.
Other reviews of note include Albert Nobbs [ Blu-ray review], Road Trip [ Blu-ray review], and One For the Money [ Blu-ray review].
Be sure to check out our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.
Some cool discs have been reviewed over the past week. Check out these recent entries: True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season - a great collection that even manages to top season three; Don Juan Demarco - a genuinely surprising and satisfying romantic comedy; and La Haine - this artfully crafted and supremely powerful film is an essential discovery for those who have yet to experience it.
Other recent reviews include: The Flaw; Man on the Train, and Killer Bride's Perfect Crime. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.
 This week in theaters, a terminally ill man and his teenaged sidekick take to the open road to take out the country's trash in Bobcat Goldthwait's pitch-black satire God Bless America, and a dirty cop has to penetrate a giant underworld nightclub headquarters to save his son in the relentless French action film
Sleepless Night. Be sure to catch our reviews of other recent theatrical films: The Avengers, The Five Year Engagement, Bernie, Elles, The Giant Mechanical Man, Citizen Gangster, Damsels in Distress, Darling Companion, The Cabin in the Woods, The Moth Diaries, and Lockout.
Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: Paul F. Tompkins: Laboring Under Delusions - Dapper, yet hilarious storytelling ; Reunion At Fairborough - Surprisingly moving television drama, with the iconic leads bringing along a heavyweight, nostalgic buzz; and Jo Koy: Lights Out - Jo Koy and his energetic, family-based observational comedy is hard to resist... this special is just plain enjoyable.
Other shows recently reviewed include: Bob - The Complete Series, The Manions of America, and Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales: The Complete Collection.
Want more? Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Journey to the Center of the Earth - James Mason and Pat Boone explore the interior of the earth and find monsters, mushrooms, massive oceans and the lost city of Atlantis; Pillow Talk - a fancy restoration of the fresh and witty Doris Day - Rock Hudson sex comedy that changed the direction of screen romance; and Bell, Book and Candle - A publisher falls in love with the owner of an art gallery, not realizing that she's a practicing witch. So who's perfect? Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.
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